New officers at Students' Union
09 August 2002Over recent weeks the new team of sabbatical officers at the University of Cambridge have been settling into their new roles and planning for the busy year ahead.
Costing the earth - environmental economics
09 August 2002Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta, a Fellow of St John's College, is joint winner of the 2002 Volvo Environmental Prize. His co-winner is Karl-Goran Maler, Professor of Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics.
Barton on performance and text
07 August 2002John Barton, playwright and distinguished director with the Royal Shakespeare Company, is returning to Cambridge for the University's Alumni Weekend, to give the English Faculty's session on 'Text and Performance'.
Nicholson at Kettle's Yard
05 August 2002Works by Ben Nicholson, one of Britain's most distinguished pioneers of abstract art and the man who inspired Jim Ede to create Kettle's Yard, are being exhibited at the gallery this summer.
Pufferfish genome unveiled
29 July 2002An international team of scientists based in Cambridge, Singapore and California last Friday (26 July 2002) announced the publication in Science of their work describing the sequencing and preliminary analysis of the genome of the Japanese pufferfish, Fugu rubripes.
Fitzwilliam trials new visitor guides
24 July 2002The latest technology will be on show at The Fitzwilliam Museum this summer in a three-week trial of visitor information systems. The Museum is offering information about its collections through two different systems: state-of-the-art digital audio guides and pioneering wireless computing technology. Visitors will be encouraged to try out both systems and pass comment on their respective merits.
Gene hunters track the horse
22 July 2002Scientists have shed new light on the origins of the domestic horse. After analysing DNA samples from both ancient and modern horses, researchers have concluded that contemporary horses do not have a single ancestry, but were probably domesticated from several distinct ancestral populations.
Cambridge physicist is streets ahead
17 July 2002The University has honoured one of its most famous physicists, by giving his name to an avenue at the new science and technology campus on West Cambridge.
Superconducting cameras to photograph the Big Bang
15 July 2002Major scientific advances, such as studying the very earliest moments of the Big Bang, finding galaxies beyond the edge of the currently observable universe, creating the next generation of x-ray astronomy satellites and sub-cellular imaging of DNA and other biological materials are all now a step closer
Europe - the bigger picture
12 July 2002The Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) at Cambridge last week held a conference which considered the complex legal aspects of one of the most dramatic current developments in geopolitics - EU enlargement.
